After two months of boots on ground, I have completed my Expeditionary Warfare Specialist qualification.  I started the second I arrived out here and feel good to know that I’ve finished.  Unfortunately a lot of those who had the qualification here already have left the last few days so the command is low on qualified personnel.  Now that I am qualified, I can help out those to get their qual to beef up the qualified list so we don’t stay low for too long.

What makes this qualification more special is that it won’t be around forever, and will only get harder to obtain as the years go by and begin moving out of the countries.  I have no idea when we will finally get out of here, besides what the papers have said, but either way the program will only get more limited as time goes and commands shut down.

Now that I have this qualification, not only am I salty having my ESWS pin, but I have gotten myself sandy as well with my EXW pin.